Historik bojových športov a bojový umelec
Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
On Thursday, Apríl 10, 1884, America’s first full-time professional wrestler, J.H. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. The men wrestled a three-out-of-five falls mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled two falls under collar-and-elbow rules. Ross favored side hold rules. The men wrestled two falls by securing side
V sobotu, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, čerstvo na svojom prvom turné po Spojených štátoch, zápasili Great Gama na Shepherd’s Bush Stadium v Londýne, England. 7,000 diváci sa tlačili na štadión, aby sledovali zápas. O pár týždňov skôr, Pán. Benjamin priviedol skupinu zápasníkov Pehlwani z Indie, aby zápasili v Anglicku. Fans consider the Great Gama
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Však, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. Júna 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans
World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, December 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. Louis
V pondelok, December 6, 1932, 41-ročný Ed „Strangler“ Lewis zápasil v jednej zo svojich posledných legitímnych súťaží, aby urovnal reklamný spor v New Yorku. Potom, čo bol spočiatku spojencami v propagácii, Jim Londos sa odtrhol od skupiny Jacka Curleyho v New Yorku. Na obnovenie mieru, strany sa rozhodli pre legitímnu súťaž alebo „prestrelku“ na urovnanie sporu. Joseph „Toots“ Mondt
On Tuesday, December 12, 1916, miestny favorit, John “Nebraský tigerman” Pešek zápasil spolustrelec, Al “holandský” rímsu, v odpracovanom zápase. Pešek nedávno pred týmto zápasom trénoval s kolegom zápasníkom z Nebrasky a uznávaným majstrom sveta Joeom Stecherom. Pešek si u iných zápasníkov vybudoval povesť streľby. Však, Pešek bol 22-ročný začínajúci a stále sa učil zápasiť, when
In the early 1880s, Sorakichi Matsuda, or Matsada in most American newspapers, traveled to the United States to wrestle professionally. Japan did not have a developed professional wrestling circuit, so Matsuda thought he would bring the sport back to Japan after an apprenticeship in the United States. After training for a while, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. Louis, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, St. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional